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NFL may eliminate kickoffs!

Roger Goodell is contemplating eliminating kickoffs during games for safety reasons. Check out the article, it's an interesting idea being pushed by Greg Shiano head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let's talk about how this would affect the game as we have grown to know and love. Fast forward 10 years this could be the flag football league.

I'm donating work to a hospital rehab gym (dedicated to this young man) this month because of a young man of 23 who, playing college football, got smacked real hard on a kickoff (it looked like helmet to helmet but it's hard to say) and went into a coma. The brain was filling up with blood, they cut half his brain away at this point and he barely talks and has difficulty walking for any period of time. He's as good as he's going to be at 25 after 2 years of therapy and brain surgeries.

I know his story is sad and tragic and for anonymity I'll keep his name and school out of this. By the way, he was misdiagnosed and had a mild concussion when this happened but the school let him on the field.

I'm not one of those that goes around saying "if it saves one person" and the young man that this happened to does not blame the game but I can see the point.

I'm donating work to a hospital rehab gym (dedicated to this young man) this month because of a young man of 23 who, playing college football, got smacked real hard on a kickoff (it looked like helmet to helmet but it's hard to say) and went into a coma. The brain was filling up with blood, they cut half his brain away at this point and he barely talks and has difficulty walking for any period of time. He's as good as he's going to be at 25 after 2 years of therapy and brain surgeries.

I know his story is sad and tragic and for anonymity I'll keep his name and school out of this. By the way, he was misdiagnosed and had a mild concussion when this happened but the school let him on the field.

I'm not one of those that goes around saying "if it saves one person" and the young man that this happened to does not blame the game but I can see the point.

That is sad but it will happen again even if they ban the kickoff or not What about the punt ret.You never hear much about Boxers UFC guess the owners have not been sued and lost yet.